Sampling-jar



c. E. BAUERMEISTER.

SAMPLING JAR. APPLICATION F|LE D OCT. i3, 1916.

1,337,034. Patented Apr. 13, 1920.

CARL E. BAUERMEISTER, 0F TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

SAMPLINGr-JAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Alu-.13, 1920.

Application filed October 13, 1916. Serial No. 125,505.

To all who/a t may conce/"1L:

Be it known that I, CARL E. BAUER- Mnis'rn, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Terre Haute, in the county of Vigo and State ofIndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSampling-Jars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to bottles and jars, and more especially to jarclosures including a cap and ring; and the object of the same is toproduce a sampling jar having a body in which the food or othercommodity is stored out of sight and yet accessible when the cover isremoved, and a cap or closure for said body in which the food or othercommodity is stored and sealed in clear sight for display purposes.

My preferred manner of constructing is set forth in the followingspecification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein:

l1`igure 1 is a perspective view of this j ar as it appears Ain use.either on the counter or in the hands of the salesman.

Fig; 2 is a central vertical sectional view of the parts of the sameslightly separated.

The jar is of non-transparent material such for instance as porcelain.By preference it has a cylindrical body 1 open at its upper end in amouth Q whose surrounding neck 3 has an external shoulder 4, and beneathsaid shoulder. elements of the closure fastener-herein shown as threads5.

The cap or closure is of inverted cupshape and is of clear glass so thatits contents may be seen. It comprises a body 11 closed at the top asshown in Fig. 2 and open at its bottom in a mouth 1Q. Surrounding saidmouth is a flange 13 having an upwardly facing outer shoulder 14, andbetween this flange and its shoulder on the one hand and the body of thejar on the other, is an inner shoulder or seat 15. Against this seat isadapted to be placed a closure which may well be in the form of a clearglass disk 16 sealed upon the seat 15 with waX or other sealing agent17.

The closure fastener may be any which will answer, but in the presentcase I have shown it as a ring 20. preferably of metal, having aninturned flange 24 at its upper end whose opening` is of a size to passcom- 4and an untidy appearance is avoided.

pletely over the body 11 of the cap and rest upon its shoulder 14, andbeneath said flange the ring is threaded as at 25 to engage the threads5 on the body 1 of the jar.

The parts are assembled by placing the closure 1G on the seat 15 andsealing it in place, then bringing the cap into the position seen inFig. 2' and passing the ring over it and down until its flange rests onthe outer shoulder 14, then moving the cap farther down until its flange13 rests on the shoulder 4 of the body, and finally rotating the ringuntil its threads 25 take into the threads 5y on the body so thateventually the entire capl is drawn down into position thereon. If thematerial .stored in the jar is of such character that it is notdesirable to admit air to it, a gasket 30 may be laid on the upper endof the neck 3 before the parts are assembled, and when the fastener istightened up this gasket will be compressed as usual in preserve jars orholders. I repeat, that I do not wish to be limited to the character ofthe closure fastener employed, as any which will answer may be used inplace of the common type illustrated. sible in many cases to omit thefastener entirely, but if the article is to be transported it willdoubtless be preferable to employ some fastener as will be clear.

Let us assume that the commodity to be displayed and sampled is bakedbeans. A charge of the beans is placed in the cupshaped cap, and theclosure 16 applied and sealed as at 17, and this charge is for displayonly and is never removed. Another and doubtlesslarger charge of thesame commodity is placed within the iar. The cap is then applied asdescribed and the article carried by the drummer or set out on thecounter. Then he seeks to make a sale or the grocer seeks to sell someof the beans to a customer, they are constantly o n exhibition becausethe customer can see them through the clear glass of the cap: and, asthe charge therein is never stirred or molested. the same does notbecome smeared on the walls To induce a sale it may be desirable to askthe customer to sample the commodity. The ring is then removed (if,indeed it has not already been taken off). and when the cap is liftedoff. the prospective customer can take out some of the commodity fromthe jar with a fork or spoon if it be material1 It may be pos-' such asbeans or with his hand if it be material such as nuts. The cap is thenreplaced, with or Without the closure fastener, but as above suggested Iprefer to use the fastener if the article is handled by a drummer andmust be put into a sample case and carried from point to point.

I claim no novelty in the jar. In fact the jar might be replaced by acontainer of considerable size. It could, indeed, be of clear glass,though I prefer that it be nontransparent. I have employed the term jarbecause doubtless this member will be a jar, but I do not 'Wish to belimited strictly -in this respect as it might be of metal or paper orother material, or it might be a bottle or of some shape not distinctlylike that shown. I lay no claim to the use of a transparent element forcontaining material Which is to be exhibited, nor broadly to means forsealingA the material therein. But I am not aware that it is old to usethis element so sealed as a closure for the other element or containerWhich is opened by the removal of the closure.

Having thus described my invention and disclaimed certain broad featureswhat I claim to be novel is:

y An opaque jar having a transparent hermetically sealed displa capfunctioning also to seal the top of said jar and provided with a memberperforming the function of compressing a gasket for sealing said jar tosaid cap.

In testimony whereof I aiix my signature.

CARL E. BAUERMEISTER.

